46¾x31¾ inches, 118¾x80½ cm. Inv. Fec. Condition B+: repaired tears at edges; some slightly into text and image; minor overpainting and restoration in upper right corner; repaired pin holes in corners and at edges.
Bottema was a painter, illustrator and a political cartoonist. He only designed a small handful of posters of which this is by far the most compelling and artistic, this stands as a bridge between the formulaic, strict, architecturally-inspired Dutch Art Nouveau designs of artists such as Richard Roland-Holst and the softer French Art Deco designs of Jean Dupas and Georges Barbier that had begun to permeate throughout the European consciousness in the 1920s. Rare.
